Read, Write & Type! (with Spanish)

Item Description:

An innovative program that integrates early reading, writing, and keyboarding.
Read, Write & Type! presents a ground-breaking approach to early language education that reflects 10 years of classroom research. By using phonics to link reading with writing, this unique program teaches three essential skills — reading, writing, and typing - simultaneously. The Talking Hands feature provides spoken instruction and demonstrates each keystroke to help students learn the sounds of each letter and where each letter is located on the keyboard. As they progress through 40 adventure-filled lessons and activities, students quickly develop the phonics and typing skills they need to create their own words, sentences, and stories.

FEATURES

• 10 levels include 40 progressively challenging phoneme lessons, each with 4-8 activities
• Each lesson includes Sound Games, Typing Challenges, Story Ideas, and Stories
• Simple word processor/simulated email tool allows students to write and print their own stories and letters
• Bilingual (English/Spanish) help option
• Visual Map of Keyboard, with letters and sounds introduced by friendly characters, combines the sounds of phonics with correct finger placement
• Clear, non-judgmental visual and auditory feedback
• Printable score reports and certificates direct students to areas that need practice

LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES

• Sound out and write hundreds of letters and sounds, words, phrases, and stories
• Develop phonemic awareness, phonics, blending, whole word, sentence, and punctuation skills
• Provides extra practice with challenging lessons, and improves typing speed and accuracy
• Combines the sounds of phonics with correct finger placement, so children easily learn to type the sounds they hear
• Effective literacy builder for children learning English as a second language
• Students move on to creating their own stories with their new-found typing and phonics skills